mr. casey: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from pennsylvania. mr. casey: thank you, mr. president. i rise to speak about the same issue that my colleague from new york just spoke to, and i know others have preceded her to the microphone -- or to the floor, i should say, and i'm grateful to be part of this discussion today. what i could do but i know i don't have to because it's so well known now is to go through the three or four most recent mass shootings, the ones that get most of the attention, but i don't have to do that because we know so well now what happened just in the last number of weeks. one way to remember them, of course, is by the names of the communities, el paso, dayton, midland, odessa. names like that that we know exactly -- everyone in the country knows exactly what you're talking about because of what happened there. what we don't talk about enough, of course, are the places where there is daily gun violence and horror and tragedy and death and grievous injury that doesn't get the same attention. tragically, another way to go thr

mr. casey: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from pennsylvania. mr. casey: thank you, mr. president. i rise tonight to speak about the issue that's been consuming a lot of our time and appropriately so, not only tonight but for many weeks since some of the tragedies of this summer starting in early august and continuing. but also an issue that's occupied the time of the american people over the course of not just weeks or months but years and even decades now. i want to thank our colleague from connecticut, senator murphy, for organizing this time to bring members of the senate together. i want to thank my colleague from ohio, senator brown, the senior senator, for his words tonight, his passion about this issue. and his commitment to change. that should be a commitment that is shared by everyone here. but we'll be talking about what has not happened here as much as what has happened. when i think about this issue, the issue of gun violence which is -- it's an epidemic, it's also uniquely an american problem. no other country has this problem. in fact,

joining casey on the stage are mr. an connolly, vice president, senior chief engineer cyber systems at boeing. the head of cyber division is really airport authority. over to you, casey. casey: thank you very much. good afternoon, everyone. thank you for joining us for this panel. very excited to be talking on this subject this afternoon. just as a point of order, we do have q & a cards being handed out by ushers at the moment. we'll do our best to get to them at the end of the panel. if you'd like to ask questions as we go, have those in mind and hand them to the ushers. aircraft safety, airport security and civil aviation regulation, the whole idea of making aerospace security for users is a concept that's commonly understood and it's been around for quite a long time. the idea of aviation and aerospace cyber security on the other hand is comparatively novel, it's comparatively new. there are a lot of people who have been working on it for a very long time but as a socialized concept it's comparatively new. that's why

joining casey on the stage are mr.ian connolly, vice president, senior chief engineer cyber systems at boeing. mr. layuper. >> thank you very much. good afternoon, everyone. thank you for joining us for this panel. very excited to be talking on this subject this afternoon. just as a point of order, we do have q & a cards being handed out by ushers at the moment. we'll do our best to get to them at the end of the panel. if you'd like to ask questions as we go, have those in mind and hand them to the ushers. aircraft safety, airport security and civil aviation regulation, the whole idea of making aerospace security for users is a concept that's commonly understood and it's been around for quite a long time. the idea of aviation and aerospace cyber security on the other hand is comparatively novel, it's comparatively new. there are a lot of people who have been working on it for a very long time but as a socialized concept it's comparatively new. that's why i'm really excited to have this group of people up on stage with

casey. senator murphy? murphy: i thank you, mr. chairman, for the opportunity for a second round. i wholeheartedly agree with senator casey. obviously your chief responsibility is to enforce and implement the law, but good secretaries are also advocates for change in the law when they think that we can do better, and you obviously will have a lot of decisions to make about priorities when you get there. one area of law in which the prior secretary was an advocate on was the issue of mental health parity. this is the law that requires our insurance companies to treat mental health coverage just like they treat coverage for all sorts of other conditions. the president's commission, president trump's commission on combatting drug addiction and the opioid crisis called on the department to aggressively enforce the mental health parity and addiction act and it suggested additional authorities be given to the department of labor, which the secretary acosta agreed with. in fact, asked this committee for more additional audit abilities and civil monetary penalty authority for violations of

for casey o'neill, robert and mr. salazar, just keeping the lights on have been a survival story. >> we are a few of the lucky ones the got started early on and it is still not easy. >> this is a commercial permit. annual state manufacturing license. >> reporter: it is amazes state, county, local regulations and tax flowcharts for an industry that is all- cash. many businesses are having to bring in investors to keep that cash flowing. the pool of investors, eventually dries up as well . >> if we started right now, today. i would say we would be struggling . >> if we had to start today it would be totally impossible. >> reporter: it is not just business owners or entrepreneurs looking at high costs. it is any single adult in california who is thinking of buying some marijuana . >> now you are talking 15+7 and then the law allows individual cities or municipalities to pack on their own tax. your 29%, literally $29 and every hundred. there is not a lot of incentive for longtime users to come into the legal market. >> th

casey. senator isakson. >> welcome, mr., scalia to have. i appreciate the time you gave me last week and conversation. i enjoyed a lot. congratulations on a great family. we would solve our labor problems if you will moved here. we could use you in georgia. i'm familiar with what you mentioned, the case you work. on georgia is the largest poultry producer in the united states. and, anyone, has something for, worker for someone who plugs chickens. it's a tough job. the stuff they, where you work for, them to include in their earned time for their pet, is a tremendous important. i, know you're home, their first thing, they want to do is be host off. and, i appreciate what you did, with the czech and workers very much. and, wasn't aware of it, i knew, they had a good lawyer, because they want a case. no one every breaks about the lawyer. so i. well the, results are clear. and, he made both sides happy. i've listened to a lot of things, you've been asked yes or no questions, to which there are no yes and no answers. that's easy for people to as

john's university, and got a star aviation flying the casey 1:30, while serving as a captain of the u.s. marine corps. our fourth witness, if mr. trash gilbert, there's a gilbert conserved as the executive vice president of the national air traffic controller association, prior to serving in this role, this gilbert served for 21 years as an air traffic or controller, at the houston traffic control center, at george bush intercontinental dental airport. she served many road within the air controlling unit, including serving represent a, southwest rating share, of national committee, and chair of the national legislative committee. although originally from oregon, miss gilbert found her way to my hometown for a college, she's a graduate eight of the university of houston. our fifth and final witness is miss pink, artemis pinkett in executive vice president for policy and the regulatory affairs and airlines of for america. miss clinton first joined airlines for america, as vice president for government affairs in april 2006. where she was responsible for over seeing all aviation related issues, before federal state and local gove

mr. garber, welcome and thank you so much for being here today. >> chairman collins, oh, that's better. chairman collins, ranking member casey and members of the committee, thank you for inviting me to testify today. it's an honor to be here with the jdrf 2019 children's congress. i was diagnosed with type i diabetes when i was 11 years old. nearly 60 years ago. but i remember vividly that my diagnosis was a traumatic event for my family. and especially for my mother. i have a disticket memory of her standing on the porch as hi father drove me to the doctor. the fear and desperation in her eyes remains an indelible image in my mind. when ever i meet the mother of someone with type i, i am brought back to that moment, to that confusion, panic, uncertainty, which is why i'm so determined to do everything i can to help find a cure for this disease. i am here today with these amazing delegates to implore you to keep supporting advances in type i research, by supporting a long-term renewal of the special diabetes program. it's been said before and it will be said again. after my diagnosis, i was kept in a hospital where i learned

mr. frankel, thank you for being here. >> good morning, senator collins, ranking member casey and members of the special committee. i'm david franco, ceo a provider of specialized health medications applications. i'm honored to be here. i note this week were celebrated 50 years and smart americans get together and put her own on the move. i like to believe the two generations later we can collectively across industry and enforcement regulation get our phone network back from the scammers that have taken it hostage. in my remarks today i want to share my perspective on illegal rubble calls including how they were technically and commercially and why the process. i will attempt to convince you that this problem can be addressed for cooperative and focused effort to stop rubble calls closer to their source. i'm prepared to diagram that illustrates the path taken by robo calls. before start i want to make a critical point clear but there is no way to send a call rubble or otherwise to a us-based consumer telephone except by arrangement with a so-called originating provider here in the united states. in other words, ru

mr. casey: mr. president, i would ask consent to vitiate the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. casey: i would also ask consent to speak as if in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. casey: thank you, mr. president. i rise this evening to talk about health care, and i won't have long remarks, but i do want to highlight a report that was just issued last week. the report is by the census bureau. i'm holding -- you are not able to read it from a distance, but the report is entitled health surance coverage in the united states, 2018, by the united states census bureau. it's dated september of 2019. and on wage two of the report -- and this is a fairly lengthy report. it goes on for about 29 pages, 29 or 30 pages. but on page two, it says, and i'm quoting -- an the general comparison here is health care in the united states, health care coverage, uninsurance numbers, those without insurance in 2017 versus 2018. here's what it says on page two of the report under the word highlights, and i'm quoting. in 2018,

mr. brown: thank you, senator casey, for speaking out on such an important issue. i mean, we talked yesterday actually he and i about the number of people that now have insurance in our state and his state it's over one million. in my state it's over 900,000 because of the affordable care act, because of medicaid expansion, because of other things. seniors have more -- seniors are getting more preventive care, the cost of drugs is less in spite of the fact this institution and the president do nothing to keep the price of drugs down. we know the white house looks like a retreat for drug company executives. so this bod has not done nearly what it should. the affordable care act is so important. i appreciate senator casely -- senator casey standing up for kids. and standing up for the affordable care act, and the impact it has had on our state. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. barrasso: mr. president, for the information of senators -- the presiding officer: the? is in a quorum call. mr. barrasso: i ask unanimous consent that the